How Much Oil is the Islamic State Group Producing? : Evidence from Remote Sensing
Accurately measuring oil production in low-governance contexts is an important task. Many terrorist organizations and insurgencies -- including the Islamic State group, also known as ISIL/ISIS or Daesh -- tap oil as a revenue source. Understanding...
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okr-10986-286172021-06-08T14:42:45Z How Much Oil is the Islamic State Group Producing? : Evidence from Remote Sensing Do, Quy-Toan Shapiro, Jacob N. Elvidge, Christopher D. Abdel-Jelil, Mohamed Ahn, Daniel P. Baugh, Kimberly Hansen-Lewis, Jamie Zhizhin, Mikhail OIL REMOTE SENSING FLARING ISLAMIC STATE OIL PRODUCTION OIL REVENUE ISIL ISIS DAESH Accurately measuring oil production in low-governance contexts is an important task. Many terrorist organizations and insurgencies -- including the Islamic State group, also known as ISIL/ISIS or Daesh -- tap oil as a revenue source. Understanding spatial and temporal variation in production in their territory can help address such threats by providing near real-time monitoring of their revenue streams, helping to assess long-term economic potential, and informing reconstruction strategies. More broadly, remotely measuring extractive industry activity in conflict-affected areas and other regions without reliable administrative data can support a broad range of public policy decisions and academic research. This paper uses satellite multi-spectral imaging and ground-truth pre-war output data to effectively construct a real-time day-to-day census of oil production in areas controlled by the terrorist group. The estimates of production levels were approximately 56,000 barrels per day (bpd) from July-December 2014, drop to an average of 35,000 bpd throughout 2015, before dropping further to approximately 16,000 bpd in 2016. 2017-11-01T17:16:10Z 2017-11-01T17:16:10Z 2017-10 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/239611509455488520/How-much-oil-is-the-Islamic-state-group-producing-evidence-from-remote-sensing http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28617 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8231 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Middle East and North Africa Iraq Syrian Arab Republic |
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OIL REMOTE SENSING FLARING ISLAMIC STATE OIL PRODUCTION OIL REVENUE ISIL ISIS DAESH Do, Quy-Toan Shapiro, Jacob N. Elvidge, Christopher D. Abdel-Jelil, Mohamed Ahn, Daniel P. Baugh, Kimberly Hansen-Lewis, Jamie Zhizhin, Mikhail How Much Oil is the Islamic State Group Producing? : Evidence from Remote Sensing |
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Accurately measuring oil production in
low-governance contexts is an important task. Many terrorist
organizations and insurgencies -- including the Islamic
State group, also known as ISIL/ISIS or Daesh -- tap oil as
a revenue source. Understanding spatial and temporal
variation in production in their territory can help address
such threats by providing near real-time monitoring of their
revenue streams, helping to assess long-term economic
potential, and informing reconstruction strategies. More
broadly, remotely measuring extractive industry activity in
conflict-affected areas and other regions without reliable
administrative data can support a broad range of public
policy decisions and academic research. This paper uses
satellite multi-spectral imaging and ground-truth pre-war
output data to effectively construct a real-time day-to-day
census of oil production in areas controlled by the
terrorist group. The estimates of production levels were
approximately 56,000 barrels per day (bpd) from
July-December 2014, drop to an average of 35,000 bpd
throughout 2015, before dropping further to approximately
16,000 bpd in 2016. |
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Do, Quy-Toan Shapiro, Jacob N. Elvidge, Christopher D. Abdel-Jelil, Mohamed Ahn, Daniel P. Baugh, Kimberly Hansen-Lewis, Jamie Zhizhin, Mikhail |
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Do, Quy-Toan Shapiro, Jacob N. Elvidge, Christopher D. Abdel-Jelil, Mohamed Ahn, Daniel P. Baugh, Kimberly Hansen-Lewis, Jamie Zhizhin, Mikhail |
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Do, Quy-Toan |
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How Much Oil is the Islamic State Group Producing? : Evidence from Remote Sensing |
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How Much Oil is the Islamic State Group Producing? : Evidence from Remote Sensing |
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How Much Oil is the Islamic State Group Producing? : Evidence from Remote Sensing |
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How Much Oil is the Islamic State Group Producing? : Evidence from Remote Sensing |
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How Much Oil is the Islamic State Group Producing? : Evidence from Remote Sensing |
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how much oil is the islamic state group producing? : evidence from remote sensing |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2017 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/239611509455488520/How-much-oil-is-the-Islamic-state-group-producing-evidence-from-remote-sensing http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28617 |
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